Straw man (disambiguation)
Straw man is a rhetorical technique (also classified as a logical fallacy) based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
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Straw man may also refer to:
- Straw man (dummy), a dummy made from straw
- Straw man (law), in law, a third party that acts as a "front" in a transaction
- Straw Man (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Straw man proposal, in business and software development, a simple draft proposal intended to generate discussion
- "Strawman", a 1989 song by Lou Reed from the album New York
- "Straw Man", a 2019 song by Silversun Pickups from the album Widow's Weeds
- Straw man, a reclaimable personal account according to the redemption movement
- Strawman theory, a pseudolegal theory prevalent in various movements such as sovereign citizen, tax protester, freeman on the land, and the redemption movement
- Straw Man (novel), a 1951 novel by Doris Miles Disney
- Straw Men (novel), a novel by Martin J. Smith
See also
- Corn dolly, a humanoid figure woven from plant stems
- A Man of Straw, a 1958 Italian film
- Scarecrow
- The Straw Men, a 2002 novel by Michael Marshall
- Der Untertan, a novel by Heinrich Mann
- The Wicker Man is a 1973 British horror film
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